Layering skin as space to reweave the existing Johannesburg Gasworks into a fashion design school and textile recycling hub
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Date
2022
Authors
Coetzer, Sarieske
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University of the Free State
Abstract
A comparison between architecture, fashion and skin lead to the assemblage of different skins and how different perspectives of skin can be employed in an architectural response. The dissertation considers the possible consolidation between skin, fashion and architecture and its application to the Johannesburg Gas Works complex in Cottesloe. Fashion elicits emotive experiences that encompass the dresser and dweller to craft and embody identity and formulate expressions through the act of dressing. The principal aim of the investigation is to explore how architecture and the application of skin as dwelling in the design of a Fashion design school and Textile recycling hub can elicit the different experiences of fashion in a space inspired by textiles. Fashion is a valuable art form that can be utilised in various architectural explorations to encourage the investigation into the skin as an architectural form giving tool. The Fashion Hub contrasts the Gasworks previous programme and form. The Fashion Hub creates the opportunity to engage with the surrounding context, communities and Johannesburg Fashion District. The theoretical discourse investigates how fashion in architecture, skin as a metaphor for a house, the five skins of ecology, and rejuvenating architecture can be applied to the architectural design process to be integrated into a synthesis of architectural expressions. The design process uses fashion as a catalyst for developing an architectural form with the implementation of skin as space and skin as an expression of fashion in the design. The engagement of skin with an investigation into skin translucency, shedding, expression, and skin as a metaphor to construct a narrative through fashion can be employed in architecture that is not confined to only fashion design. The engagement of skin in the theoretical underpinning section showed that different skins could be developed within the Fashion design school and Textile recycling hub to encourage interaction between people and fashion through architecture.
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Dissertation (M.Arch. (Architecture))--University of the Free State, 2022